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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 1, 1998Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1998, 12:27 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 1998, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 1998, 1:15 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 9 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -328 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

485 
WUUS1 KDDC 010526
SVRDDC
KSC057-010615-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1227 AM CDT WED JUL 1 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 115 AM CDT

* AT 1224 AM CDT... DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WRIGHT                       BY 1235 AM CDT
  SPEARVILLE                   BY 1245 AM CDT
  BELLEFONT                    BY 1255 AM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF YOU ARE
CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

BELL/CICCONE

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 1:51 PM CDT, 10 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 1:51 PM CDT, 10 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
151 PM CDT TUE JUN 30 1998

...SHORT TERM...
MAIN QSTN TNGT IS POPS ANBD TEMPS.  ELEVATED BAROCLINIC ZN SET UP
ACRS MY FA SHD SHOW LTL MOVEMENT TNGT WITH UPSLOPE FLOW AGAINST HIER
TERRAIN OF COLORADO DUE TO PRODUCE ANOTHER MCS WHICH SHD TRACK SE
DOWN THE BAROCLINIC ZN ACRS MY ZNS.  MDLS AGREE ON THIS WITH
EXCEPTION THAT THEY SHOW USUAL BIAS FOR MOVG THE FNT AND BAROCLINIC
ZN BACK TO THE NORTHEAST TOO FAR AND TOO FAST.  MOST AREAS WILL SEE
RAIN IN THE BUCKET THUS WILL GO WELL ABV MOS FOR POPS AND WITH HIGH
DWPTS WILL ALSO CONTINUE MNTN OF PSBL LCLY HVY RAINS.  FWC TEMPS
LOOK FAIRLY GOOD BUT WL UNDERCUT THEM JUST A TOUCH FOR EVAPORATIVE
COOLING IN COOL AIRMASS.

...LONG TERM...
WYSIWYG. THO MDLS PUSH BAROCLINIC ZN OFF TO THE NE WITH TIME HARD TO
SEE HOW THIS WL HAPPEN AS CONTD CHCS FOR PCPN FALLING INTO THE COLD
AIR EACH AFTN AND EVE SHD CONT TO REINFORCE THE COLD AIR DOME AND
THUS KEEP THE FRONT ND BAROCLINIC ZN FARTHER S INCREASING THE DAILY
AND NIGHTLY RISK FOR PCPN.  WL GO SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE GUIDANCE FOR
POPS EACH DAY AND OVRNGT AND A CATEGORY BLO GUIDANCE FOR HIGH TEMPS.
MOS LOOKS RSNBL FOR OVRNGT LOWS WITH ONLY MINOR TWEEKS NEEDED.
.JOHNSON

...EXTENDED...
TODAYS EXTENDED MODELS ARE STARTING TO SHOW AN INCREASE TO THE
MONSOONAL FLOW OVER THE CWA FOR THE WEEKEND PERIOD. ALSO...THIS
MORNINGS 12Z AVN AND LAST NIGHTS MRF ARE HINTING AT SOME SORT OF
TROPICAL DISTURBANCE TRYING TO NOSE ITS WAY UP CENTRAL TEXAS DURING
FRIDAY/SATURDAY. IF THAT DISTURBANCE CAN GET CAUGHT UP IN THE
ADVERTISED SOUTHWEST FLOW...THEN A CHANCE FOR PCPN FOR THE WEEKEND
SEEMS VERY REASONABLE. LOWS AND HIGHS THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD WILL BE
LOWERED SLIGHTLY GIVEN THIS SCENARIO.
.MCCAMMON

.DDC...NONE

PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE FOR COORDINATION ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE
CONTAINED WITHIN THE TOPZFPDDC.

DDC 064/088 067/090 067 864
GCK 063/089 065/092 065 864
EHA 065/091 066/094 066 663
LBL 066/090 068/095 068 663
HYS 062/086 066/087 066 545
P28 068/092 071/092 072 886

JOHNSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade	62 min
Jun 30, 11:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	61 min
Jun 30, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark	62 min
Jul 1, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	61 min
Jul 1, 1:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	32 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.